Teec Nos Pos

History

The community of (Navajo: "Circle of cottonwood trees" or "round tree") was originally located several miles to the south of its present location, and was known as Tisnasbas, and so named officially by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1915. The population has since moved north to the junction of U.S. Highways 160 and 64. In the 1930s, the Indian Irrigation Service constructed two concrete diversion dams on nearby T'iisnazbas Creek. The dams irrigated approximately of Navajo farmland. It was renamed Teec Nos Pas in 1960 and Teec Nos Pos in 1983. The community is the center for Navajo weaving of the Teec Nos Pos patterns.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.07%, is water. |source 2 = National Weather Service }}

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  278
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  82
• Western Bluebird

  Sialia mexicana Swainson, 1832 · Aves
  75
• Northern Flicker

  Colaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  71
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  70
• White-crowned Sparrow

  Zonotrichia leucophrys (J.R.Forster, 1772) · Aves
  65
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  64
• Spotted Towhee

  Pipilo maculatus Swainson, 1827 · Aves
  59

Most recent

• M 2.6 — 2025-11-21
  26 km SSW of Ojo Amarillo, New Mexico
• M 2.6 — 2024-08-26
  8 km S of Rough Rock, Arizona
• M 2.5 — 2024-08-25
  13 km NNE of Round Rock, Arizona
• M 2.6 — 2023-03-06
  17 km ENE of Chilchinbito, Arizona
• M 2.5 — 2022-07-16
  11 km NW of Many Farms, Arizona
• M 2.8 — 2020-06-10
  5 km WNW of Tsaile, Arizona